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Fun fact: it used to have 13 bars, but changed to the current 8 because 13 bars could not be made pretty on (8-pin) matrix printers.
Fun fact: exactly once, the team organising IBM's participation in the Copenhagen Pride parade got away with wearing t-shirts with the bars printed in the rainbow colours. Immediately after, they were notified that such alterations to corporate branding was unacceptable.
^(I cherish the two shirts I still have.)
There once was an official IBM logo issued in rainbow colours in 2017:
https://page-online.de/kreation/wie-man-mit-einem-logo-politisch-farbe-bekennt-zeigt-ibm/
https://www.queer.de/detail.php?article_id=27946
Good on corpo for allowing that. That was after I left (and in a different country) so I wasn't aware.